On Mon, 13 Apr 2015, Wilfred van Velzen wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 WvV> Only if you're near the limit of a fidonet message. What is that
 WvV> now? 16KB?

nope... according to the spec, there has never been a limit on FTN message
sizes... what there has been has been lazy programmers foisting artificial
limits that they didn't want to work around...

 WvV> But how usefull is it to post such big pieces of code? I can't 
 WvV> remember ever have seen that happen in fidonet...

one of my posting tools used to post the entire ~2Meg nodelist to an echomail
area for testing purposes... i used that same tool to post the most recent
policy document proposal... users running antiquated software had problems but
no one else did...

)\/(ark